Some of the most beautiful work of this craftsman, and many others, are in this book “Liège Gunmakers through their Work. 1800 - 1950”.
For more detail see: LIEGE GUNMAKERS
Galand "luxurious"
Revolver
Galand
with slipping barrel and cylinder, with peripheral extractor “automatic”, with
rebounding hammer.
The lever
of trigger guard involves by dropping the barrel-cylinder group which slips on
the prolongation of the axis, thus creating a space necessary to the
simultaneous ejection of the casings.
Charles
François Galand
(1832/1900) French, live in Liege street Vivegnis, 296 where it had a workshop,
probably because of the skilled labor and very economic of the workmen arms
manufacturers of Liège.
This is
why the majority of its manufacture carries the punches of Liège.
He also had a deposit-sale in
Many thanks to JO for the text and the pictures
